Sand company fights for dredging rights

Shifting sands – the Environment Court hearing was preoccupied with finding a way to stop inshore dredging last week. Three separate bids by an Auckland aggregate business to continue dredging hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sand from the Pakiri and Mangawhai coastline looked set to be cut to just one appeal case in the Environment Court last week. McCallum Bros Ltd (MBL) lodged appeals against Auckland Council’s refusal to renew its consent to mine sand from the inshore and offshore zones, while Manuhiri Kaitiaki Charitable Trust (Ngāti Manuhiri), Friends of Pakiri Beach, the Department of...

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